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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the Malian singer-songwriter was produced by John Parish and features guest appearances from Devendra Banhart, John Paul Jones, and Toni Morrison.
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  1. Feb 11, 2016
    80
    Other highlights, such as the Ngoni-driven Kenia, the desert blues of Tu Voles and an atmospheric take on Nina Simone’s haunting lament Strange Fruit confirm that she is an artist still very much at the top of her game.
  2. Feb 11, 2016
    80
    Less commercial than her last album, maybe, but it’s a finely sung, pained and intimate set.
  3. Apr 21, 2016
    80
    As with so much African music, Né So favors hope over despair, proud defiance over inchoate anger, and stands as the most trenchant portrait of the African musical spirit so far this year.
  4. Feb 11, 2016
    80
    With Né So, Traoré feels completely dialed in and in control, delivering her most compelling record yet.
  5. Feb 16, 2016
    80
    Traoré’s vocals remain smooth, agile and sometimes challenging.
  6. Mojo
    Feb 22, 2016
    80
    Ne So is a thing of delicacy, it's a silky, immersive grooves and intertwined guitars weaving a subtly seductive canvas against which Traore's smoky vocals, often couched in close harmonies, waft. [Apr 2016, p.92]
  7. Feb 16, 2016
    58
    Most of the textural differences from song to song on Né So are slight, so they tend to bleed into one another.

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